Its great predicament is that no one in or near the cabinet yet looks capable of fixing the underlying political problem.
As Europe wrestles with its great predicament, Hollande faces charges that he is a "dangerous" tax-and-spend Keynesian out to reverse the fiscal and monetarist rigour of the Germans and trick them into pooling eurozone debt by issuing eurobonds.
Despite the fact that socialized medicine being practiced in several developing countries in which health care is the joint responsibility of the state, the hospital and the doctor, the doctors' action of going on strike carries greater ethical predicaments for themselves.
If the opponents of Mubarak's regime blamed it yesterday for being a client of America, how can they blame Washington today for not standing against it strongly, or forget that there other Arab republics whose democratic predicaments are far greater than the plight of the Egypt...? Washington has allowed Nuri al-Maliki to take a second term in Iraq, despite losing the election!
There is no denying the jump in mood between the three; just listen to the taut, plucked strings that underscore the action in "On the Run," as opposed to the parping horns that inform us, with no great subtlety, that the predicament of Alain, in "An Amazing Couple," is to be treated primarily as farce.
Firth's restrained voice-over narrative of his inner thoughts adds great poignancy to his predicament.
Some propose that the solution to our current predicament lies in greater regulation and more scrupulous governmental oversight.
Everything else may change on the great stage, but never the predicament of these two miserable boats.
So while reading a good novel about an asylum seeker might not convert us into an advocate of a more humanitarian approach to refugee protection – assuming that this is something to be desired – it will surely give us a greater insight into the human predicaments at the heart of the issue.
India's predicament with Lutyens's greatest architectural achievement began at the time of independence.
